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UPFRONT 3 EDITOR’S LETTER 6 LETTERS
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London’s largest area of Roman mosaic for over 50 years; Was Stonehenge a solar calendar?; Industrialscale Roman silver extraction in Kent; Pictish symbol stone unearthed near Aberlemno; Bronze Age mound found under ‘lost’ Oxford college; Science Notes; Iron Age coin database launched online; Finds Tray
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Joe Flatman excavates the CA archive
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A landscape through time: Belhus Park, Essex
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Evensong: people, discoveries and reflections on the church in England; The Mesolithic in Britain: landscape and society in times of change; The Great British Dig: history in your back garden; The Shaping of the English Landscape: an atlas of archaeology from the Bronze Age to Domesday Book; The Archaeology of Merseyside in 20 Digs; The World of Stonehenge
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CA previews Feminine Power: the divine to the demonic at the British Museum 59 MUSEUM NEWS
The latest on acquisitions, exhibitions, and key decisions 60 LISTINGS
Our selection of exhibitions and events, as well as historical, archaeological, and cultural resources from around the world that are still available online 62 DIGS
A selection of upcoming excavations 64 SHERDS
Chris Catling’s irreverent take on heritage issues 66 ODD SOCS
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Time Team investigating an Iron Age fogou in Cornwall.
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Excavating a POW camp in Shropshire
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